In Other Brooklyn News

New York City finished its first full week back to school amid an array of legal challenges, anxious parents and dozens of classrooms closed.

Security footage shows chaos emerge from two shooters holding up diners outside an upscale restaurant in New York City on Wednesday. The brazen robbery, which police said led to a 28-year-old man getting shot in the leg, happened after 10 p.m.

The developer behind two 34-story towers at 960 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, recently rejected by the City Planning Commission, is suing.

Add botched vendor contract negotiations to Mayor de Blasio's list of excuses for not implementing a City Council law designed to impound cars owned by dangerous drivers such as one blamed for killing a 3-month-old baby girl last week in Brooklyn .

Add botched vendor contract negotiations to Mayor de Blasio's list of excuses for not implementing a City Council law designed to impound cars owned by dangerous drivers such as one blamed for killing a 3-month-old baby girl last week in Brooklyn .

He's a veteran Democratic office holder who registered as a Republican in the late 1990s. He's a junk food lover who turned vegan. He's an insider with an outsider's sense of grievance.

A Brooklyn toddler died Saturday after being found unconscious in his home, police said. Now, the medical examiner determined his death was likely the result of a history of repeated abuse. Officers responded to a 911 call just after 10 a.m.

Pop Smoke's Green-Wood Cemetery gravesite in Brooklyn was vandalized over the weekend, police said. The report about problems at his crypt came in to the NYPD on Saturday morning, officials said.

A recent high school graduate with dreams of going into law enforcement had his life cut short by an unlicensed drunk hit-and-run driver in a Queens crash, police and the victim's family said.

A Brooklyn man is facing a slew of hate crime charges - and an attempted murder rap - for allegedly assaulting and robbing two men while making anti-gay statements at a Bushwick bodega, authorities said .